Apps: Education

Wednesday 25th February 2015 - Kids are set to get an extra dose of motivation this spring thanks to Funifi DO, a new app launched today aimed at creating harmony in the home.

From tidying their rooms to completing their homework, children can now log their chores via a mobile device and, in return, receive rewards – positively turning what would be everyday boring tasks into fun and motivating activities.

Preparing textbooks that are both educational and stimulating can sometimes prove difficult, especially in today's society. But the exploratory terrain found in Earth: A Primer($9.99) makes learning about geology much more digestable.

The Digital Harbor Foundation wants to give you a 3D printer. Thanks to their new Perpetual Innovation Fund, they have set aside funds to give 3D printers to worthy schools and teachers who can make a case for it. In addition to 3D printing, the foundation teachers technical skills like electronics, and web and app programming in their after-school and camp classes.

The new interactive picture book “A Parcel of Courage” has become available on iOS and Android in order to help children 3-6 years old to build big hearts and capacious minds by providing some balanced brain-training activities, and most importantly, encouraging families to build stronger loving connections between all the family members.

Developed by the MoonaGroup, “A Parcel of Courage” is a new type of interactive picture book created for parents who want to emotionally connect with their children ages 3-6 years old and provide them with some brain-training activities for the right and left side of the brain. While many educational apps concentrate on building intellectual skills, “A Parcel of Courage” is meant to help families use the new devices as another tool to raise well-balanced, kind-hearted children who possess rich creativity.

The fresh interactive picture book “A Parcel of Courage” brings families a whole new reading experience by inviting them to help three little boys and their granny to overcome distance and unlock a magic ritual for making their own wish come true! Children can enjoy reading and playing inside the story and get deeper with “I Play” mode, which provides them with an extra original set of four balanced educational games for both the right and left brains as well as a wonderful dreamy reward - a stunning airship.

Apple has always been a strong player in education. They believed that if a student's first computer is an Apple, then that could influence their future purchases. It certainly did with me, as I first used an Apple ][ Bell & Howell (the black one) in high school, and while I purchased an Osborne 1, a Radio Shack Color Computer, a Sinclair ZX-80, and an IBM PC, I always had a special place in my heart for Apple. So when it was time to go to college, I picked a school (Carnegie Mellon University) that had a deal on Macs, and bought one the day I arrived on campus. I even applied for (and got) a job at the school's computer store, and became Apple's Campus Representative. I was at CMU when Steve Jobs came there to acquire the Mach Kernel for his NeXT Computer company, and I got to see him speak. So that first Apple computer set my career in motion.

At the last CES, iPhone Life awarded Best of Show to Ozobot, an emerging technology toy and educational robot system that had great promise. Ozobots ($49.99) are now shipping and we've had a chance to play (and learn) with them over an extended time. Ozobot is a programmable tiny cute robot that resembles the top half of everyone's favorite droid, R2D2. The domed robots can be customized with different color tops so kids can play with several at a time and still tell them apart. The robots get their programming not from a keyboard but via an optical sensor on their bottoms. The Ozobots "read" colors and commands that tell it to go straight, turn one way or the other, or reverse, etc. Kids can "program" the robots by literally drawing with markers on a page of paper. It's a fun way to program without ever touching a keyboard!

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In the section above briefly touched to edit information on the title of a song. The area of information can be accessed via the right-click> Get Info. From there it's pretty self-explanatory process. As mentioned above, at least the title, artist and album is probably the absolute minimum necessary to have a clean, uncluttered music library. However, I prefer each entry of the track number, genre, year, and this screen can enter this information. Edit information for multiple songs at once. Use with caution.